My suggies are currently asleep and I've had them for 3 days (they are about 1 year 10 weeks old and have previously bonded.) but I have no clue how to get them into the pouch without waking them up. They're sleeping in a hanging fleece pouch, earlier today I cleaned out their cage and the boy (Gizmo) got very curious, but whenever I try to pet him he nips me (not enough to hurt just as a warning maybe?) I really want to bond with them, but I don't know how to get them into their bonding pouches. Also, once I get them in the tent (in the evening) how would I get them to go back into their bonding pouches without picking them up using fleece (as they dislike this greatly, as you would expect.) For the past 2 days that I've had them (sunday and monday) I never got them out, because I don't really know how to without them nipping me, also, where do you guys usually keep your water bottles? I have one of those little droppers that Hamsters use, where should I put this? Should I have multiple? I've tried contacting the past owner, and since she's in College getting ahold of her during the day is not easy, and I need help, I love my Gliders but I really don't know what to do now, I've been feeding them, they come out at night, but I want to be able to have them jumping on me and getting used to me, or have them sleeping in their bonding pouches for a few hours a night with me (which is what I'm supposed to do, as I've read.)

Eventually they will seek refuge in their pouches unless they are wide awake. One thing to do is to make it very bright. They will seek darkness in their pouch. A useful method is to reverse the pouch, put it over your hand like a glove, grab a glider with it and then reverse the pouch over them. Be careful not to break any arms.

James wrote:Eventually they will seek refuge in their pouches unless they are wide awake. One thing to do is to make it very bright. They will seek darkness in their pouch. A useful method is to reverse the pouch, put it over your hand like a glove, grab a glider with it and then reverse the pouch over them. Be careful not to break any arms.

I have done that in the past, and they really did not seem to like that (they both started to crab and wiggle around very angrily) the girl I got them from in the past said she did the same though, should I give them a while to get used to the scent? I placed some fleece blankies for them in their cage last night with my scent on it.

EDIT: I just held the pouch out toward them and they crawled in, once one went in the other followed. I'm so excited!